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Rejected Dashboard Interfaces

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Luke

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03.06.06

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The blade navigation system on the Xbox 360 Dashboard is one that most people have come to love. How did the boys and girls at Microsoft come up with it? By process of iteration, and here are four of their concepts (one being the chosen blade layout).

Rejected Dashboard Interfaces

Seeing these, do you think MS made the right choice, or would you prefer one of the other Dashboard setups? I think Loop is my favourite aside from Concertina, which got the nod.

ExperienceUCD.com (which crashed, so via Xbox-Scene.com)

On the original XBOX there were 45 screens that needed to fit on 250MB while on the new design and complexity of the system there were 450 screens. These screens had to fit on 2.5MB. To accomplish this was quite a feat. The team had narrowed the core design to four interface

The next steps they conducted were usability testing of the four designs. Each of the designs had a flash interface designed and tested in four regions with around 6 participants per region. The top two designs were the top two (loop and concertina). The main reason was ease of use. The overall winner was concertina because of the unique interface coupled with the user feedback on how easy the interface was to navigate. The interface zoomed the user in and out giving them a spatial experience and relationship.

The team also acknowledged the importance of the out of box experience. How the user feels, when purchasing and opening their product . Apple does an outstanding job at this. A great reference was the Japanese do a great job at this with their packaging. You buy a snack that has 25 cents worth of product but $2 worth of packaging. They understand the importance of this experience. Would you rather open a brown box with black writing on the side per almost all of consumer electronics or have that experience be just as ritualistic as turning on your TV. I feel like I carry this torch every day at my job, but it isn't just about the end product, but how someone gets there and their experience along the way.

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